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University Daily Kansan
Monday, Dec. 7, 1964
Jayhawks Suffer Season's First Defeat
By Bob Jones
By Bob Jones (Assistant Managing Editor)
(KU suffered its first defeat in basketball this season Saturday night before a crowd of 7,000 fans in Allen Field House, losing to Northwestern from the Big Ten, 58-55.
The Jayhawks jumped off to an early seven-point lead, and increased this margin to 10 points during the first half.
Early in the second half, KU's lead again reached 10 points, but
Northwestern forward John Martz scored two points to tie the game at 36 all with 12:45 left in the second half.
SECONDS AFTERWARD. NU guard Walt Tiberi hit a layup, and the Wildeats were ahead to stay.
Walter Wesley, the Jayhawk's 6-11 center who was sitting on the bench because of foul trouble, reentered the game and hit three quick buckets to keep KU in contention.
Sayers Falls Short in Bid For Third Rushing Crown
The hex which declares that no Big Eight back will win three individual conference rushing championships dropped KU's repeat All-American halfback Gale Sayers to third place in final league standings for 1964. But the Omaha senior closed his career with 2,675 paces, 113 above the old conference career record.
This belonged to Iowa State's Dave Hoppmann at 2,562. The Cyclone tailback lost his bid for three straight rushing crowns as a senior in 1962 when Sayers broke in with an 1,125 sophomore total. Thus, these two are paired with Bob Steuber, Missouri ('41-'42); George Thomas, Oklahoma ('48-'49); and Tommy McDonald, Oklahoma ('55-'56) as double kings of this division.
Sayers is the sixth career record holder, topping a succession that began with Steuber in '42 on 2,034, and fell successively to Thomas, 2,106 ('49); Bobby Reynolds, Nebraska, 2,196 ('52); Clendon Thomas, Oklahoma, 2,282 ('57), and Hoppmann.
AFTER SAILING by Hoppmann's mark in the seventh game with a 110-yard outburst against Kansas State, Sayers could reap only 27, 24, and 19 in the stretch run against Nebraska, Colorado and Missouri to close his senior hitch at 633. He had collected 917 as a junior to bag his second league ground-gaining title.
Oklahoma State's workhorse junior fullback, Walt Garrison, won the '64 bable on 730, just five lengths ahead of another big fullback, Oklahoma's Jim Grisham. With 1,117 yards in his first two seasons, Garrison will have a long shot at the league's exclusive 2,000 group next season.
Grisham came in this year with 2.404 (counting his 107 against Alabama in the Orange Bowl two years ago) to vault into third place. He'll have a chance to pad that total in the Gator Bowl against Florida State.
Sayers also established a KU record for most career carries at 412, erasing the 369 held since 1947 by Ray Evans. And the former jumped to second on KU's all-time total offense list, 2,778, second only to Evans' 3,799.
SECOND VARSITY mark of the year was Gary Duff's 50 extra points, surpassing by one Don Fambrough's total of 1946 and '47.
Quarterback Bob Skahan earned a spot on the single-season passing honor roll by collecting 550 aerial yards. This lifted him to 12th on that list, and his completion percentage of .526 is the third-best in history, trailing only Jerry Robertson's .544 in '51, and Ralph Miller's .540 in '41.
By now Northwestern's 6-9 Jim Pitts had warmed up too, and scored enough points to keep the Wildcats ahead.
THE GAME was iced for Northwestern with 14 seconds left when sophomore Jim Burns hit his 15th and 16th points on free throws to make the score 58-53.
The Jayhawks' problems were further complicated when Wesley fouled out of his third straight game along with guard Al Lopes.
Wesley was high point man for the Jayhawks, hitting 16 points on 8 baskets. He was followed by Del Lewis with 10, Lopes with 8, Ron Franz with 6, and Riney Lochmann, Jim Gough and Fred Chana with 5.
IN A GAME played just before the Northwestern contest, the KU freshmen upended Chanute Junior College 78-61 in the season opener for the squad.
In the game, John Carter, a 6-5 football end from Norton came off the bench to hit 24 points to lead the freshman Jayhawks to the win.
Chanute was hampered by the fact that none of their players were over 6-2, and took a bad beating on rebounding by the taller Jayhawks.
However, Ken Cloud of Chanute was the high point man for the game, hitting 26 points.
ROGER BONENSTIEHL, 6-5 Kansas forward from Collinsville, Ill., lead both teams in rebounding with 13.
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